Young green rice – flavor of autumn

For over a century, people of Me Tri village in Tu Liem, Hanoi, have been making ‘com’. Visiting Me Tri in autumn, one can enjoy the scent of com (young milky rice) being dried all over the village.

Young sticky rice is the main ingredient of this delicacy (Photo: VNA)

Me Tri green rice is made from fleshy, soft and fragrant grains (Photo: VNA)

Me Tri villagers make green rice twice a year based on two summer and winter crops (Photo: VNA)

Plucking the grains is the first step to make rice flakes (Photo: VNA)

Drying young sticky rice in a yard in Me Tri (Photo: VNA)

Rice is roasted over a low-heat fire and stirred constantly (Photo: VNA)

When the green grains turn white, the roasting is finished (Photo: VNA)

Rice is pounded after being husked (Photo: VNA)

With its special sweetness and nutty flavor further enhanced by the lotus leaf in which it is typically packed, com is a delicacy which shows the quintessence of Hanoi’s original cuisine that every visitor to the capital city should try (Photo: VNA)

Young sticky rice flakes are wrapped in lotus leaves to retain their softness and fragrance (Photo: VNA)

The fragrance of green young rice spreads all over Me Tri village every autumn comes (Photo: VNA)

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